Who is Mike?

One of the worst things that can happen to a person nowadays is identity theft, especially since most documents are in electronic format already. Once someone has all of your details and access to your bank accounts, things usually get pretty nasty, and it’s actually difficult to prove your identity in the court of law sometimes, depending on the case.

Who is Mike? is an interactive visual novel in which the main character is confronted by a guy who looks and acts just like him. The goal is to make the right choices in order to figure out who is the real Mike, although there are multiple endings you can reach along the way, depending on what you say. Don’t expect too much complexity either, since this is still a fairly short adventure.

The whole thing starts with the main character waking up in the middle of the night with a dark figure watching over him, which is creepy to say the least. As it turns out, this figure is actually himself, or at least someone who looks exactly like him. They seem to be one and the same person, sharing memories and a personality, but only one of them is the true Mike.

As mentioned before, you can reach multiple endings depending on what you choose to say or do. Death is actually a pretty common outcome, but there are ways you can cheat it and actually unravel the mystery, although you need to go through the game multiple times. Thankfully, the skip function allows you to quickly fly through the dialog you have already read.

The graphics are nothing out of the ordinary for the genre, but the artwork is at least hand-drawn, so it looks quite nice. There are not too many backgrounds to shuffle through, which is a bit of a bummer, but at least you are constantly distracted by the mystery itself and everything else. Lastly, the music is not bad either, even if it’s far from memorable most of the time.

In the end, Who is Mike?'s greatest attraction is the fact that you are never quite sure whether you know the truth, regardless of what ending you reach. Thus, it’s fun to go through the game multiple times and see everything it has to offer.